B336 Lab Problems

Instructions for Lab Sessions

This information is relevant for for South Street campus internal students only.

If you haven't signed up for labs yet, or you need to change your lab:

Check the current lab allocations, and find the labs that have less than 15 students.

Email the unit coordinator to request a place. Please send as many preferences as you can, in case other students have been allocated the empty slots before you.

If there are no empty labs appropriate for you, you can do one or more of the following:

Keep checking the lab allocations. If you see a place open up, then follow my instructions above to request a place.

Use the "Lab Swap Mart" group in the discussion forum to see if anyone is willing to swap labs with you.

Turn up for a lab that is full, and see if anyone hasn't turned up. If a lab is full, then perhaps you can work in one of the adjacent rooms, where we have most of the software installed. You can come into the official lab and consult the tutor when you encounter problems. The danger with this is that most time other units are making use of the adjacent labs, and the tutor there may deny you entry into the room at that time. Please notify the tutor on duty if you are doing so, because he needs to assess your lab work.

Work on your own, and arrange times to see me to go through problems. This is similar to how the external students do their work. You have access to everything they have access to, including the instructions on software to install at home (in the downloads page). I do not recommend this though, since external students have a tutor allocated to them when it comes to off-campus assistance, but I may not have enough time to support and internal student's home endeavours. Also, it is always a lot easier to work when you have a tutor to assist you the moment something goes wrong. You also have to turn up to one of the lab sessions weekly to have your lab work assessed.

H.L. Hiew
Unit Coordinator

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